For Nash Hutmacher and Ty Robinson, watching from the sidelines isn’t easy — but Nebraska’s veteran leaders soon learned they could teach technique when they weren’t practicing it.
Nikola Jokic did it all again. And the NBA MVP trophy is his again. The Denver Nuggets star from Serbia was announced Wednesday night as the league’s Most Valuable Player. It's his third time winning the award in the past four seasons, a feat that just six other players in NBA history have a…
Tim Connelly made his first major move for the Minnesota Timberwolves after about six weeks on the job. His bold get of center Rudy Gobert was as risky as it was unconventional. Going big has been no small part of this breakthrough season and dominant start to the playoffs for the Timberwolv…
Michael Conforto homered and singled in a six-run second inning that sent the San Francisco Giants past the struggling Colorado Rockies 8-6. Blake Sabol and Conforto each finished with three of San Francisco’s 13 hits. Jordan Hicks pitched five effective innings and the Giants won their seco…
Nebraska baseball suffered another midweek meltdown, this one against South Dakota State. Perhaps the worst one of all, too, over the last two seasons.
Nikola Jokic was the only player to rank among the NBA's top 10 in points, rebounds and assists per game this season. That was a big factor in him winning the MVP award for the third time in four years. He becomes the fifth player with four consecutive top-two finishes in the balloting. Mean…
The San Francisco Giants have placed outfielder-designated hitter Jorge Soler on the 10-day injured list with a right shoulder strain and filled his roster spot by recalling outfielder Heliot Ramos from their Triple-A affiliate in Sacramento. Soler, whose placement on the IL was made retroac…
Nikola Jokic was the only player to rank among the NBA's top 10 in points, rebounds and assists per game this season. That was a big factor in him winning the MVP award for the third time in four years. He becomes the fifth player with four consecutive top-two finishes in the balloting. Meanwhile, Luka Doncic's never-before-seen combination of stats wasn't enough to get him the MVP award. And for the 11th consecutive year, the award went to a player who wasn't selected No. 1 overall to start his career.
The San Francisco Giants have placed outfielder-designated hitter Jorge Soler on the 10-day injured list with a right shoulder strain and filled his roster spot by recalling outfielder Heliot Ramos from their Triple-A affiliate in Sacramento. Soler, whose placement on the IL was made retroactive to Sunday, had missed the last three games. Ramos was the Giants’ first-round draft pick in 2017. In 30 games with Sacramento this season, he was batting .296 with eight home runs.
It’s a testament to the entire Nebraska softball team that even with a depleted, heavily injured pitching staff, the Huskers will be in contention for a Big Ten Tournament title.
The Dallas Stars are in an all-too familiar hole. This is their sixth consecutive playoff series over three postseasons going into Game 2 after losing the opener. This time it's against Colorado in a second-round Western Conference series. The Stars will try Thursday night to avoid a repeat of the opening round when they lost the first two games at home to Vegas, last year’s Stanley Cup champion. The Stars did fight back back to advance in seven games. In the only other NHL playoff game Thursday, the Carolina Hurricanes go home in their own 0-2 hole to the New York Rangers.
Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone says he reminded his team they are the defending champions and issued a challenge to both act like it and play like it. The Nuggets are coming off a blowout loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves where they lost their collective composure. Jamal Murray was fined $100,000 by the NBA for throwing two objects onto the court in the second quarter of Denver's 108-80 loss to the Wolves in Game 2. The series shifts to Minnesota for Game 3 on Friday night.
CHICAGO — That first night in Kenosha, Wis., Nathan Fox remembers, was like something from a horror movie. A horde of older teammates was outside his dorm room, he said, screaming and sounding a siren and pounding the wall so hard it actually shook. It was 2015, and Fox had just arrived at training camp for the Northwestern University football squad. He had heard the older players’ taunts of ...
Athletic departments across the country are trying to figure out the best way to manage the name, image and likeness landscape when it comes to athletes earning endorsement money.
Check out the results from the Nebraska high school track and field district meets.
The Raiders won eight events and qualified for state in 11 total on Tuesday, Sidney won the team title with 119 points.
Check out the latest Nebraska high school baseball rankings.
Alliance placed fourth in the North Platte girls tennis invite Saturday. Gering and Scottsbluff were fifth and sixth, respectively.
CHICAGO — That first night in Kenosha, Wis., Nathan Fox remembers, was like something from a horror movie. A horde of older teammates was outside his dorm room, he said, screaming and sounding a siren and pounding the wall so hard it actually shook. It was 2015, and Fox had just arrived at training camp for the Northwestern University football squad. He had heard the older players’ taunts of ...
Athletic departments across the country are trying to figure out the best way to manage the name, image and likeness landscape when it comes to athletes earning endorsement money.
Nebraska O-line coach Donovan Raiola had a pep in his voice and even a bit of optimism when talking about his group that features several old guys with NFL aspirations.
The Cougars (27-28), who have won five straight games, earned the fourth seed and open against No. 5 Lamar Community College.
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"We intend to fund a full-time charter for this season,” WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a meeting with sports editors. The initiative will commit $50 million over two years. (Scripps News)
The historic soccer event is tantamount to the Kansas City Royals facing the Storm Chasers in a one-game playoff of a tourney involving major league and minor league teams.
CINCINNATI — Joe Burrow threw some crisp passes in a team workout Tuesday and said rehabbing his surgically repaired right wrist is still a work in progress.
The WNBA plans to commit $50 million over the next two years to provide full-time charter flight service for its teams during the season, the league's commissioner announced Tuesday in a move that addresses years of player safety concerns.